NEW YORK, NY - It’s 6:30 on a Thursday evening in “The Big Apple”, and deep within the bowels of the legendary Madison Square Garden, the air crackles with the electricity of anticipation. You see, this isn’t just any Thursday evening. On this night, as the cumulative weight of untold hours of blood, sweat and […]

NEW YORK, NY - After spending a full day with an early build of NBA Live 08, I have a good idea regarding which direction producer Brent Nielsen and his team are going the recently-flagging franchise. The good news? It’s the right one.
While it’s not fair (or realistic) to try and look at the game […]

From The Department Of “About-****in’-Time!”: WiiWare.
Though there’s been an online marketplace available to the grandpas and soccer moms who have catapulted the Wii into the sales stratosphere, it’s been substantially different than competing offerings available on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Those two systems have offered an outlet for digitally distributed original titles, but […]

I’m just about to walk out the door and catch a plane to the Big Apple, where I’ll be participating in the NBA Live 08 Community Day on Wednesday.
The posts may come at irregular times this week, but when they do, they should be chock full of NBA Live and basketball information, so tune in […]

Musings for a Monday morning:

Nicole Kidman has become the face of Nintendo in Europe after signing on to promote their Brain Training series. While I expect many gamers to scoff at this decision, the fact remains that it’s a good one, and it illustrates the changing dynamics regarding gaming in the mainstream marketplace. Kidman is […]

Proving to gamers everywhere - and more importantly, parents and Congress - that the industry can police itself, the ESRB has given Rockstar’s Manhunt 2 an “AO”/Adults Only rating, according the game’s developer, Take-Two Interactive.
This means that most U.S. outlets won’t carry the title for sale or rent and Sony and Nintendo have said that […]

It’s been months, and my Guitar Hero II hunger has not yet been sated.
Still the go-to game for parties (and my wife), GH2’s pitch-perfect play keeps everyone coming back for more, and the game’s flawless learning curve means that I’m always surprising myself by being able to play a song that I never would have […]

“Are you hooked on video games or Internet games to the extent that you feel it negatively affects your life? Do you spend hours each day online or in front of the game console? ABC News is looking for teens or adults who are unable to control their electronic gaming habits or […]

Last Friday, Shawn and I chatted about the recently released May NPD numbers. Looking at the 360’s dominance in next-generation sales, Shawn wondered why Microsoft wasn’t dropping the price in order to kill off the PS3 while it was struggling. Like all great championship teams know, you’ve got to learn to step on the throat […]

While the PS3’s gaming library is still sparse and the system’s sales are lagging badly enough for Sony to start publicly discussing price cuts, it’s raison d’etre - the real horse that Sony bet on with the $599 system - just got a huge push out of the gate.
While video-game money is good, Sony’s […]